Chris Powers
CTO at Career Bird
Grayslake, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Powers is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 18 years of experience building high-performing engineering teams and data-driven products. He has led engineering organizations at Chegg and Thinkful, managed experimentation platforms at Groupon, and now guides CareerBird’s technical strategy. Known for combining hands-on product engineering with organizational design, Chris regularly speaks at conferences on project management and team effectiveness. Based in Grayslake, Illinois, he brings a background that ranges from founding web consultancies to building CRM and email platforms for real estate, reflecting both startup grit and enterprise-scale delivery. An uncommon detail: his academic roots in music inform a collaborative, rhythm-focused approach to team leadership and product cadence.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Music, Bachelor's degree Music at Wheaton College
Github Skills (39)
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logic8
business-rules7
multicast7
character-sheet6
javascript6
iterm5
receiver5
mdns5
css5
middleware4
nodejs4
web-development4
chromecast4
persistent3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chrisjpowers/chrisjpowers.github.com
Jun 2017 - Mar 2020
Personal homepage & blog
Contributions:9 commits, 56 pushes in 2 years 9 months
personal-homepage
chrisjpowers/kona
Apr 2011 - Jul 2012
Contributions:18 commits in 1 year 2 months
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